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Hey… has anyone out there made their own wind turbine ?.. details please if you have… or water powered generators ? I’v priced them up over here and I recon my great great grandchildren might just see the initial outlay pay off ..I know its more than just the money issue but when your skint it has a bearing on whether to make the shift away from the grid :rolleyes:
John

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Thanks Joel.. We dont exactly work them hard anyway.. I’ll take your advice and make our hay and do a bit of harrowing and some wagon work.
John

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Hi.. Is it definatly “drey” ?.. A dray is a 4 wheeled wagon that was used for street deliveries..the railway companies were big users and of course beer companies. Could be a usefull thing to have.Cheers
John

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Try a google search for “THE WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP BY GEORGE STURT”.. Its available again in paperback and is a facinating read .Originaly printed in the 1920s. A real insight into the timbers and practices of a village wheelwright. once you start you wont want to put it down I promise. Speedy recovery.
John

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Hi Richard.. A new Pioneer full spec footlift plow with the 12″ KV bottom is $2511.
John

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Hi Rod .. That is a seriously neat bale mover !! We are also looking for a good way to move bales and do away with one more job our 1954 fordson has to do around the yard.. moving bales and powering our hay chopper with the belt pulley is the only jobs left.. I take it there are no hydraulics and it does it all by pivoting to get the lift ?? Simplicity..
John

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Major congratulations to you both . I think its great that your state supports sustainability in this way.. What other incentives do you guys have over there ?? Is it a “state” thing or is there a national award to. ? We have nothing that suports draft animal power in the agricultural sector.. Or at least I dont know of anything, mabey some of my fellow brits could chip in here !
John

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I thought the belly band was ment to pass through the loop on the end of the martingale ?? it may be just the way it looked on my tiny screen but I thought it was hanging right over the belly band.
John

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Hi.. The belly band and that breeching if he puts his mule in a wagon and wants him to stop it..I’d recon his legs would end up through the hold backs their so slack
John

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Hi Simon.. Yes a black Clyde.. Bought him up at Perth. He’s a fair age now, but really likes his work. He was running in mud the day we went to see him and rather thin.. We paired him up with our bay horse.. thats the two of them in the foto galery at the street parade last year.. As I said it took months to get him right .. he ok now and only now and again he does a less than perfect start in the wagon..
John

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ordineraly i’d agree Joel but the other 3 are great..2 of them home trained.. and i know the horses history and he was treated less than good.. Its a true saying that horses arnt born bad .. humans do that. cheers
John

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Hello my name is Caitlyn and I am 11 years old I am the “C” in my dads title “jac”…I can drive our clydesdales in the hitch cart and look forward to be having a shot with the plough.I also like Aberdeen-angus, I am a member of the of the Aberden-angus cattle society. Bye for now 🙂
Caitlyn

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Hey Mitchmaine.. thanks for that, I kinda suspected the after effects wouldnt be very conducive to mowing:).. I bought a gelding about 5 years ago that had spent his life in the woods and must’v been asked to start some big loads coz when I first hitched him in the wagon and gave him the message….lets just say dragsters leave the line slower!!! and I had months of trying to get him off that carry on. Even yet he sometimes forgets and I usualy try and start them by side stepping 1st.. dont think I’ll ever get him in the plough.. my two mares can do that. Cheers..
John

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I have read that historically a lot of these countries that are now starving did have agriculture but then Britain and others came along with the “Empire” building and swept it all away and created a “monoculture” of tea, coffee, cotton or whatever with no regard for soil or fertility. The locals then became slaves to the big owners and when the empire left they were left with depleted soil.. South Africa is the flipside though.. Mugabee has the means to feed his country but chooses to destroy some of the best farm land on that continent!!!!
John

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Hey guys.. Barw check out Donns post on” how to put fotos on” in the “how to use this forum” at the top of the home page.. Up till I read that me and this computer were on real shakey ground and I spent a lot of time shaking my fist at God:D.. LF.. I copied Lynn Millers plans totaly but I put the hammer strap on the pole I used for my wagon.. you can just make it out on the foto of me loading hay in the gallery.. That bar I have at the front is going to be reshaped to include a dropped loop with a locker at the opening to take an evener for a 3 or 4 up soon…do you think the hammer strap on the pole for the hicthcart would work ok or did Lynn make it that way for a reason ??
John

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